18 May 2023
Mykola Gurzhiy, 74, a local fisherman stands at the kitchen of his flooded house in the island of Kakhovka reservoir on Dnipro river near Lysohirka, Ukraine, Thursday, May 18, 2023. Damage that has gone unrepaired for months at a Russian-occupied dam is causing dangerously high water levels along a reservoir in southern Ukraine.
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Ihor Medyunov, a local hunter, stands at the kitchen of his flooded house in the island of Kakhovka reservoir on Dnipro river near Lysohirka, Ukraine, Thursday, May 18, 2023.
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"Now, there is nowhere to go," said Medyunov. "We will wait for a better time to rebuild, repair. It's really painful."
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Lyudmila Kulachok, 54, stands in the flooded courtyard of her house on an island at Kakhovka Reservoir on Dnipro River.
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